INTEGRATED TRANSPORT AND LAND USE PLAN

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:34): I have a supplementary for the Minister for Transport. Given that you, minister, have done costings and you have explained to the house why it is inappropriate for you to release them, and the Minister for Finance has said that the CityLink is provided for in the future in the forward estimates—

The SPEAKER: Can we have a question, please?

Ms CHAPMAN: —can you explain then why you have indicated that the CityLink project is in your short-term five-year plan for implementation, if it is not provided for in the forward estimates?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:35): Forward estimates is four years—four years, for all the illiterates opposite. The reality is that what we have done is that we have categorised projects into time scales. We are going out to community consultation to talk to people about them. For example, there is a time scale about moving the Keswick international terminus into the CBD.

We have put that out into the later years, but if there's overwhelming community acceptance of doing that perhaps you would bring that forward and put something else out. The whole idea of this plan is to de-politicise transport and infrastructure, something members opposite have said they want to do, but when we do it they try to politicise it. What we are attempting to do is to give the people of this state a range of options that they can choose from. What members opposite are trying to do is kill it.

The SPEAKER: Well, thank you for de-politicising it. The member for Giles.